Pastel Pretties

 Street Peeper's Phil Oh, by Isaac Likes.

Last week it was this picture taken during New Zealand Fashion Week. This week it's this one from New York Fashion Week. The pastels. I loves them.

The New Smith

I was very happy to get my hands on a copy of the new Smith Journal, from the makers of Frankie magazine. It seems that everyone wants to know why the new magazine isn't named 'Frank', seeing as it's a more masculine version of Frankie - this is what editor-at-large Rick Bannister had to say about that:

"…even though Smith Journal was created by the Frankie team, it’s not simply a male version of it. It’s not the brother of Frankie. It’s different. It’s more like Frankie‘s guy friend. A guy who’s interested in a lot of different stuff to Frankie. (Smith Journal and Frankie would definitely want to hook up though, I reckon, so they had to be from different families, otherwise that would have been weird and wrong)"

Photography Lessons #2

From top: jasmine on my street // hangover breakfast // Melbourne laneway // Smith Street // Collingwood Children's Farm // goat! // Abbotsford Convent // Abbotsford Convent Slow Food Farmers Market

The photography lessons continue! These were all taken using a Fujica camera with a Super Takumar Lens.

Good Times Mix Swap

A while ago I participated in the mix cd swap that Mallory from Where the Lovely Things Are proposed to readers of her excellent blog. There's no better way to discover new music than receiving a handmade mix, and this particular mix swap had the added bonus of getting paired with an awesome new bloggy friend. This is what I received from my mix-swap partner Helena, of The Herbarium.

I was extra chuffed when I received this beautiful hand knitted bow with my mix - so sweet! The theme for the mixes was GOOD TIMES, and though we both chose some similar artists, all the songs we picked were different - surely this equals a musical match success!

Thanks to Helena's mix I am now totally obsessed with this song:


Metronomy - The Bay from David Wilson Creative on Vimeo.

Thanks again Helena, and thank you Mallory for coordinating it all!

Shoes 'n' Socks

{pics from top via aucklandstreetstyle,  foureyes, madebywhite, browndresswithwhitedots, louderthansilence, herecomesthesun}

I'm loving these cute shoes and ankle socks, socks layered over tights, and socks and sandles - lets definitely bring that look back.

Georgemania

I can't wait to see Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary.

Photos via Fuck Yeah George Harrison

Pastel Perfect

I've been glued to katherineisawesome.com this week, her New Zealand Fashion Week coverage has been freaking amazing. This shot of off duty model Rosie is one of my favourite things of the week, I'm so blown away by those pastel shoes!

I Can't Wait to See…

… all the buildings in New York!

All the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock.

This has to be one of my favourite buildings in New York (though I haven't actually been there … yet!)

Photography Lessons

Mr Meet-Cute has become obsessed lately with buying old cameras online, and I really want to learn more about photography, so he has been teaching me all about F stops, shutter speeds, and getting that needle thingy you see through the lens to line up in the middle. These photos are the results of one of our 'photography class' excursions, taken on a gloomy Winter afternoon at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens using a 1970s era Praktica camera.

I got a bit snap-happy and finished my roll of film within 20 minutes! Luckily we also had a digital camera with us - no film required for that.